Black holes in magnetic monopoles with a dark halo

Abstract

We study a spontaneously broken Einstein–Yang–Mills–Higgs model coupled via a Higgs portal to an uncharged scalar [Formula: see text]. We present a phase diagram of self-gravitating solutions showing that depending on the choice of parameters of the [Formula: see text] scalar potential and the Higgs portal coupling constant [Formula: see text], one can identify different regions: If [Formula: see text] is sufficiently small, a [Formula: see text] halo is created around the monopole core which in turn surrounds a black hole. For larger values of [Formula: see text], no halo exists and the solution is just a black hole monopole one. When the horizon radius grows and becomes larger than the monopole radius, solely a black hole solution exists. Because of the presence of the [Formula: see text] scalar, a bound for the Higgs potential coupling constant exists and when it is not satisfied, the vacuum is unstable and no nontrivial solution exists. We briefly comment on possible connections of our results with those found in recent dark matter axion models.